Troubleshooting and Maintaining Your PC All–in–One Desk Reference For Dummies - Softcover

Gookin, Dan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470396652 ISBN 13: 9780470396650

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Synopsis

Maintaining a PC is important, and troubleshooting a PC can be a challenge. Dan Gookin is great at explaining how to handle common PC problems, and he s provided a complete, plain–English manual in Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your PC All–in–One For Dummies.

Liberally laced with Dan s famous humor and clear instructions, Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your PC All–in–One For Dummies is divided into six minibooks covering hardware, software, laptops, Internet, networking, and maintenance. Each one gives you some background on what causes common problems, to help you understand what s wrong as well as how to fix it. You ll learn to:

• Troubleshoot both Windows XP and Vista
• Solve e–mail and Web woes, makes friends with ActiveX, and protect your system from evil software and viruses
• Resolve router problems, reset the modem, delve into IP addresses, and find the elusive wireless network
• Investigate startup issues, battery quirks, and power problems
• Travel safely and efficiently with your laptop
• Perform regular maintenance and keep good backups
• Solve problems with disks and printers
• Find missing files, successfully restore files if something major goes wrong, and pep up your PC

The bonus DVD walks you through some of the complex steps discussed in the book and demonstrates tasks like removing a hard drive. There s a great collection of free and demo software, too. Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your PC All–in–One For Dummies is tech support in a book!

Note: CD–ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

About this title

About the Author

Dan Gookin wrote the original For Dummies book, DOS For Dummies, and launched a phenomenon. Among his many author credits are PCs For Dummies, Laptops For Dummies, and Word 2007 For Dummies. His books have more than 11 million copies in print and have been translated into 32 languages.

From the Back Cover

Who needs tech support?

Amaze your friends and fix it yourself!

When your PC goes rogue, having this hefty volume at your elbow is the next best thing to having a personal PC genie. Got a problem? Look it up in one of these handy minibooks to learn a bit about what might have caused it as well as how to solve it. When you understand what′s wrong, it′s easier to fix it now and prevent it from happening again.

• The Zen of fix–it find out what′s behind common PC problems and why the same solution may work in several situations

• You haven′t got mail solve e–mail and Web woes, make friends with ActiveX®, and guard against evil software

• When it′s the network resolve router problems, reset the modem, delve into IP addresses, and find the elusive wireless network

• That ever–lovin′ laptop investigate startup issues, battery quirks, power problems, and laptop travel woes

• Like getting an oil change perform regular maintenance and get serious about backups

Open the book and find:

• Tips and solutions for both Windows® XP and Vista

• What happens when your PC performs basic functions, and what could go wrong

• Startup and recovery options

• Strategies to find missing files

• Fixes for unhappy disks and balky printers

• Tools for keeping out viruses and malware

• Ways to pep up your PC

• Secrets for successfully restoring files

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470396652
• ISBN 13: 9780470396650
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 768